Airlines Are Backing Volantio (YC W09), a Startup That Could Fix Overbooking

Re:Airlines Are Backing Volantio (YC W09), a Startup That Co... by wpietri on Sunday April 15, 2018 @10:34AM (#16842791)

No, those are your morals. And you're projecting them on to everybody. "Just plain fucked up" is another way of expressing your personal values, not a rational argument.

I get that you value the "but we had a deal" criterion for fairness above the other things people value in this situation. Which is fine! You do you. And I agree that forcible removal is a bad idea that we should ban.

But booking so that the airplane will probably be full and paying people to wait a bit when statistics make it overfull is something that the great majority of the public is fine with. Flexible people like it quite a bit.

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Re:Airlines Are Backing Volantio (YC W09), a Startup That Co... by bogomipz on Sunday April 15, 2018 @07:03PM (#16845527)

>"No, those are your morals."

No its common decency and etiquette. These aren't "mine" they are social norms.

>"I get that you value the "but we had a deal" criterion for fairness above the other things people value in this situation"

Sure everybody is "fine" with this as long as its just chatter on HN. It's all optimization problems and capturing true market value etc. But I'm willing to bet that when you yourself are on the receiving end of an involuntary bump by an Airline your first thought is most certainly not "I'm fine with this."

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